Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-10-03 | Page 10 | Missionaries Tell of War Zone Peril

! MISSIONARIES TELL : i OF WARZONE PERIL 1 Mr. and Mrs. Harold Tribe :l I Relate Experiences in Germany. Special to The Tribune. ! OGDEN, Oct. 2. Driven from sev- eral German towns and forcod to travel in boxcars with soldiers on their way to the front wero some of the thrilling experiences of Mr. and Airs. Harold Tribe, Ctformon missionaries, who reached their home in this city t-o- ! day. Both Mr. and Mrs. Tribe were laboring in the missionary field when j war was declared early in August. Or dered to discontinue their proselyting ' in the German empire, they were ban- ished from Stuttgart, whore they were i loeated at the outbreak, of the con- ! flict i The Ogden people then went to ! Frankfort, where four Russian spies , ! were killed by the German soldiers '! on the night of their arrival. From Frankfort they journeyed to Cologne, j where Mr. Tribe had charge of the missionary work for a time. It was on this trip that Mr. Tribe witnessed the capture of two French nuns who were traveling through the country in an automobile loaded with bombs. He said i the nuns were immediately execute-d as spies. I After the declaration of ar by Great Britain, according to Mr. Tribe, 1 all English speaking people in Ger many were closely scrutinized and ' forced to give a good account of their movements. On several occasions, he said, he knew that he and his wife were being; closely watched. Until he reached neutral soil he declared that he was in fear of not being ablo to give a satisfactory account of himself and would be shot as a spy. The trip across the Atlantic was made on the steamship Scotiana, which carried four .' six-inch guns ready for instant action and moved at night with all lights out.